Fade Resistance Performance
The logic of the original US Constitution was so elegantly simple that a foreign observer could explain it to his countrymen in two sentences. Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that "the attributes of the federal government were carefully defined [in the Constitution], and all that was not included among them was declared to remain to the governments of the individual states. Thus the government of the states remained the rule, and that of the federal government the exception."
A Document of Principals, Not principalities...
The Declaration of Independence, which underlies the Constitution, holds that the rights of the people come from God, and that the powers of the government come from the people.
Did you get that? According to the Declaration of Independence, the rights of the people come from God, and the powers of the government come from the people. Unless you grasp this Basic Order of things, you'll have a hard time really understanding any part of the Constitution.
The Constitution was the instrument of Freedom by which the American people granted, or delegated, certain specific powers to the federal government. Any power not delegated was withheld, or "reserved". As we'll see later, these principles are expressed particularly in the crucial Ninth and Tenth Amendments, two extremely time neglected provisions of the US Constitution.
The Founding Fathers' documentation of Freedom was very elegant and it's principles, even today are so very simple. The rights of the people come from God. The powers of government come from the people. The American people delegated the specific powers they wanted the federal government to have through the Constitution. And any additional powers they want to grant were supposed to be added by amendment.
It's largely because we've forgotten these simple principles that the country is in so much trouble. The powers of the federal government have multiplied madly, with only the vaguest justifications and on the most slippery pretexts. Its chief business now is not defending our rights but redistributing our wealth through extortion in some cases and entitlements in others.
The federal government has even created its own economics, the tax economy, which is parasitical on the basic and productive voluntary capitalist economy. Even much of what passes for "national defense" is a kind of hidden entitlement program, as was illustrated in 1992 when our 41st President, Herbert Walker Bush, warned some states that if Bill Clinton was elected as the next President, jobs would be destroyed by the closing of non-essential military bases.
Nobody involved in American politics, not even the most fanatical liberal, would openly admit that he or she doesn't care what the Constitution says. And surely, you wouldn't expect to hear that they're not about to let the Constitution interfere with their agenda. Such a political figure could never expect to be elected and such a position taken publicly would absolutely get them "rejected".
Everyone, especially those in Government, if prompted, profess to respect the Constitution - even the Supreme Court. The U.S. Constitution has come to serve, in the Political Forefront, the same function as the British royal family: it offers a comforting symbol of tradition and continuity, thereby masking a radical change in the actual system of power. The Constitution was never intended or engineered to be a Political Document, it was designed to be a perpetual Charter of Freedom for and by the People.
In sharp contrast to the Framers' original intent, we now have fascists who mean to do without the Constitution, coming up with slogans to keep up appearances: they spew propaganda like "the Constitution is a living document", which granted, sounds like a compliment. They say it has "evolved" in response to "changing circumstances" and "situations", etc. They maintain the position that the Constitution is a mystic document and in no way could still have the same meanings it had two centuries ago.
Our Leaders of seventy years ago, before the evolutionary process which started accelerating the demise of the Constitution, would likely be horrified at the site of the current political landscape in this country. They would be equally shocked by the absolute political presence of certain factions, who tend with suspicious consistency to be liberal, maintaining that whatever the Constitution may have meant in the past, now only defines whatever suits their current conviction, pleasure or convenience.
Liberalism...